R Job Trends in the West Midlands

R
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring R skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 152 214
Rank change year-on-year -22 +62 +4
Permanent jobs citing R 26 21 38
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.31% 0.65% 0.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.71% 2.63% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 22 20 35
10th Percentile - £37,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,250 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.89% -13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £40,625 £58,125 £73,125
90th Percentile £71,106 £61,375 £80,000
England median annual salary £32,500 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -47.58% +3.33% -7.69%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

R falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 961 799 1,889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.45% 24.66% 25.63%
Number of salaries quoted 724 605 1,637
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,300 £75,772
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing R relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

R job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

R
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing R.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing R

R
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing R in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 10 May 2026.

Salary histogram for R in the West Midlands

R
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing R within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham -4 17 £30,500 -32.22% 2
Staffordshire -10 4 £36,000 -32.95% 1
Wolverhampton - 2 £38,750 - 1
Shropshire - 1 £37,500 - 1
Dudley - 1 £30,000 - 1
R
England

R
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (15.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 4 (15.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (65.38%) AWS
2 16 (61.54%) Azure
3 12 (46.15%) GitHub
4 4 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 4 (15.38%) Smartsheet
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (3.85%) Serverless
5 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (46.15%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (50.00%) Git
2 4 (15.38%) JUnit
2 4 (15.38%) Maven
2 4 (15.38%) Mockito
General
1 12 (46.15%) Multimedia
2 4 (15.38%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Law
2 4 (15.38%) Manufacturing
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Games
3 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Trainee
2 6 (23.08%) Data Scientist
2 6 (23.08%) Senior
3 4 (15.38%) Administrator
3 4 (15.38%) Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Java Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Senior Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Senior Java Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Trainee Administrator
3 4 (15.38%) Web Administrator
4 3 (11.54%) Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Data Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Junior
4 3 (11.54%) Junior Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Junior Data Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Junior Data Scientist
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (46.15%) CSS
1 12 (46.15%) HTML
2 4 (15.38%) REST
3 1 (3.85%) PySpark
3 1 (3.85%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Management Information System
1 4 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.85%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Mentoring
2 9 (34.62%) Decision-Making
3 8 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (26.92%) Computer Science
4 7 (26.92%) Data Science
5 6 (23.08%) Data Analysis
6 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
7 4 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (15.38%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 4 (15.38%) Deadline-Driven
7 4 (15.38%) Emotional Intelligence
7 4 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (15.38%) Microservices
7 4 (15.38%) Project Delivery
7 4 (15.38%) Scrum
7 4 (15.38%) SDLC
7 4 (15.38%) Sprint Planning
7 4 (15.38%) Systems Thinking
7 4 (15.38%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 22 (84.62%) Python
2 12 (46.15%) JavaScript
3 11 (42.31%) SQL
4 4 (15.38%) Bash
4 4 (15.38%) C
4 4 (15.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (15.38%) Java
4 4 (15.38%) PL/SQL
4 4 (15.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (46.15%) AWS Certification
1 12 (46.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 12 (46.15%) Azure Certification
1 12 (46.15%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (23.08%) Degree
3 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) QA
2 3 (11.54%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle